Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc. recently stated that sales of tablets would overtake PC sales in the near future. Here at Virable, we agree. Mobility has always been the catalyst to personal computing development. It began with the desktop, which gave rise to the laptop, the smartphone, and now the tablet – the best of both worlds, mobility and power.
And taking the tablet a step further we’re placing our future bets on the heads up display, like Google’s Smart Glasses. I’ll be sleeping with mine on the first few nights I own them…
From PCWorld – Apple continues to clobber its competition in the tablet market, and the new iPad is only going to make matters worse for rivals like Samsung. But it’s not just other tablet makers that are taking significant hits delivered by the iPad. A new survey of business users by ChangeWave Research found that nearly one-third of the companies expecting to buy tablets in the next few months are using them as replacements for PCs for at least some users.
What’s more, the penetration of tablets into the enterprise, a major piece of what’s being called the consumerization of IT, is speeding up. Twenty-two percent of the businesses surveyed expect to buy a tablet soon, and the only reason that number isn’t three or four points higher is that Apple didn’t announce the third-generation iPad until a month after the survey was conducted, says Paul Carton, ChangeWave’s director of research.
The survey, conducted last month, is yet another confirmation that no company comes close to matching the iPad in the enterprise. Indeed, the iPad wannabes are barely on the radar. While 84 percent of the companies that plan to buy a tablet in the next quarter said they will go with Apple’s iPad, up from 77 percent in November, just 8 percent said they will buy one from the No. 2 brand, Samsung, compared to 10 percent in the previous survey.
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